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Leave Her to Heaven

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Leave Her to Heaven

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Summary

Crime melodrama starring Gene Tierney and Cornel Wilde. Beautiful Ellen Berent falls obsessively in love with Richard Harland, an author who resembles her dead father. But Ellen's jealousy of anyone who attracts Harland's friendship has deadly consequences.

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

Tony Sloman

Glowing Technicolor and glorious melodrama make this a moody and lurid depiction of father-fixation and jealousy. Gene Tierney drops fiancé Vincent Price after she meets handsome author Cornel Wilde, only for her possessiveness to destroy everything and everyone. This has been described as the first film noir to be shot in colour and Tierney's bad-girl performance earned her the only Oscar nomination of her career. She would lose out in the best actress category to Joan Crawford for her role in Mildred Pierce.

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Cast

rolenameEllen BerentGene TierneyRichard HarlandCornel WildeRuth BerentJeanne CrainRussell QuintonVincent PriceMrs BerentMary PhilipsGlen RobieRay CollinsDr SaundersGene LockhartDr MasonReed HadleyDanny HarlandDarryl HickmanLeick ThorneChill WillsJudgePaul EvertonMrs RobieOlive Blakeney

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rolenameDirectorJohn M Stahl

Details

Theatrical distributor

20th Century Fox Film Co. Ltd

Released on

1946-04-08

Languages

English

Available on

video and DVD

Formats

Colour

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